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Manage Renovations
Active-job communication, payment, sequencing, quality control, and practical contractor management.
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01 Rules for Managing Contractors The source calls this 18 rules but skips number 13 in its spoken count, so this page preserves the teachings without inventing a missing rule. 02 3 Advanced Tactics for Managing Contractors Three contractor-management tactics: prepare the site, use communication contractors already use, and document expectations three ways. 03 Are You Getting Screwed by Your Contractor? How to Spot Corner Cutting Learn the trade clues and four early warnings that can reveal contractor corner cutting before a rehab goes further off track. 04 A Contractor Showed Up to Fight Me (What It Taught Me About Management) What a plumbing dispute taught me about written, verbal, and video expectations, payment timing, skills, and relationship capital. 05 Exactly How to Talk to Contractors The difference between trade rules and owner preferences, plus the written, verbal, and video expectations I use with contractors. 06 Five Levels of Managing a House Flip Rehab A five-level path from daily rehab supervision to weekly expectations, phase checkpoints, full-project control, and an organizational view. 07 How to Handle Poor Drywall Work on a Flip When drywall work is sloppy, Ross pays only for usable work and either requires a proper fix or hires someone else under the agreed terms. 08 House Renovation Management: The Chips You Need to Move Project management on a renovation is a critical path, four types of manager, three types of contractor, and a whole lot of relationship capital. 09 The Larossa System: 6 Phases, Blocks, and the Art of the Audible The Larossa System orders jobs inside interior and exterior blocks across six phases so a project does not move upstream without a clear reason. 10 The Lazy PM Approach: How to Manage Contractors Without Babysitting Them Set the bid, payment schedule, and scope before work starts, then check costly mistakes, pay approved work quickly, and track costs by phase. 11 Manage Contractors with These Battle Tactics from Napoleon Seven campaign tactics applied to a house flip: supply, focus, chaos, presence, speed, deception, and terrain. 12 Renovations Are Nothing Like I Was Taught Ross contrasts the neat process taught in construction-management school with field crews, finish mistakes, and collecting W-9s before payment. 13 Should I Pay This Contractor? A Cosmetic Rental Walkthrough Ross walks a cosmetic rental and separates clear punch-list items, safety concerns, and harmless flaws before final payment. 14 The Contractor Black Hole: Why It Happens and How to Avoid It Tie contractor draws to completed work, inspect each milestone and final walkthrough, and hold final payment until the agreed closeout work is done. 15 The Ultimate 3-Step System for Managing Renovations Ross adapts Getting Things Done to rehabs through capture, processing, and scheduled review. 16 The Work: Relationship Capital and the Manage It Yourself Method Manage renovations through clear expectations, relationship capital, lawful permit roles, and control of scope, sequence, and payment. 17 This Is Why Your Contractor Sucks (And How to Fix the Relationship) Why tight margins, double-booking, job delays, and customer behavior shape contractor performance and priority alignment. 18 Who Should Buy Materials on a House Flip? Ross assigns material purchasing by contractor type and job so the project protects momentum, control, and operator bandwidth. 19 Why You Always Inspect Before Paying a Contractor A house called market-ready by a quasi GC fails Ross's walkthrough and shows why he inspects the agreed scope before final payment. 20 You Call This House Flip Done? Ross finds a long punch list after a contractor asks for final payment and explains why payment must stay behind completed work.
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